Digital Marketing Careers in Japan: What 383 Job Postings Ask For

Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.

383
173
58%
64%

What Gets You In

  • 1-2 years of experience

    73

  • 3-4 years of experience

    97

  • 5-9 years of experience

    47

  • 10+ years of experience

    6

17%

16% day-to-day or above

  • Digital Marketing

    47%

  • Paid Media / Ad Operations

    44%

  • Data Analysis

    42%

  • KPI Management

    32%

  • Project Management

    28%

  • CRM

    27%

  • SEO

    23%

  • B2B

    20%

383 postings

Levels by Experience

1–2 years

19%

7% day-to-day or above

73 postings

3–4 years

24%

12% day-to-day or above

  • KPI Management 44% (+19)

  • Project Management 33% (+17)

  • Lead Generation 22% (+12)

  • Content Marketing 20% (+10)

97 postings

5+ years

28%

43% day-to-day or above

  • Stakeholder Management 36% (+14)

53 postings

Stated Pay

All postings

Median ¥6,500,000 · 244 postings state pay

¥5,300,000

25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries

¥7,900,000

1–2 years

Median ¥6,100,000 · 62 postings state pay

¥5,000,000

25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries

¥7,000,000

3–4 years

Median ¥7,000,000 · 61 postings state pay

¥6,500,000

25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries

¥8,000,000

Working Conditions

123 days

54 postings

20 h

55 postings

36%
39%
  • Fully remote

    7

  • Hybrid

    92

  • On-site

    23

376 postings

What Comes Next

  • People management

    19

  • Senior leadership

    15

  • Specialist track

    12

  • Project management

    5

Employers naming each step, of 28 that name one

Levels by Job Title

Specialist track

  • Entry / new graduate

    22

  • Junior / associate

    1

  • Senior

    11

  • Principal

    2

Management track

  • Team lead

    9

  • Manager

    23

  • Director

    5

Individual-contributor level

36 postings from 26 employers

Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.

These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.

Digital Marketing · individual-contributor level

Stated salary

median ¥5,000,000 · 24 postings

Too few stated salaries to publish a range

3%

English · 35 postings

  • Daily English

    3%

  • Some English

    11%

  • No English stated

    86%

100%

Japanese · 35 postings

  • Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)

    80%

  • Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)

    14%

  • Limited Working Proficiency (JLPT N3)

    6%

3 years median (middle half 2 to 5)

over 23 postings stating a threshold · Entry / new graduate 2 · Senior 5

14% of postings (5)

Manager level

23 postings from 22 employers

Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.

These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.

Digital Marketing · manager level

36%

English · 22 postings

  • Daily English

    36%

  • Some English

    27%

  • No English stated

    36%

95%

Japanese · 22 postings

  • Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)

    77%

  • Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)

    18%

  • No level stated

    5%

5 years median (middle half 3 to 6)

over 15 postings stating a threshold

30% of postings (7)

19 openings are titled as a candidate for this level

Who Is Hiring

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Digital Marketing career ladder?

A level-by-level summary of what live Digital Marketing job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.

Where do the numbers come from?

From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.

Why is there no pay figure at some levels?

A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.

What does "candidate for" mean?

Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.

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